# Proverbs 6

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/6

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands for a stranger.
2. You are snared by the words of your mouth; you are captured by the words of your mouth.
3. Do this now, my son, and rescue yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's hand; go, humble yourself, and urge your neighbor.
4. Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
5. Rescue yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand, like a bird from the fowler's snare.
6. You sluggard, go to the ant; see her ways and be wise.
7. which has no captain, officer, or ruler,
8. She prepares her food in summer and gathers her provisions in harvest.
9. How long, sluggard, will you lie down? When will you rise from your sleep?
10. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little clasping of hands to sleep.
11. So your poverty will come like a wayfarer, and your need like an armed man.
12. A scoundrel, a man of wickedness, walks with a crooked mouth.
13. who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who points with his fingers
14. Perversity is in his heart; he plots evil every time and stirs up strife and contention.
15. Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; suddenly he will be broken, without remedy.
16. Yahweh hates these six; indeed, seven abominations detestable to his soul.
17. exalted eyes, a deceitful tongue, and hands pouring out innocent blood
18. a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet hastening to run to evil,
19. a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers.
20. My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not abandon your mother's instruction.
21. Bind them continually to your heart, and tie them around your neck.
22. When you walk, it will direct you; when you sleep, it will guard you; and when you wake, it will speak with you.
23. For the commandment is a lamp, the law radiant light; reproofs of discipline are the path of life.
24. to guard you from the wicked woman, from the flattery of a foreign woman's tongue.
25. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids.
26. For a prostitute costs only a loaf of bread, but a man's wife hunts the precious life.
27. Can a man gather fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
28. Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet getting burned?
29. So is the one who sleeps with his friend's wife; whoever touches her will not be guiltless.
30. They do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry.
31. But if he is found, he shall make amends seven times; he will give all the wealth of his house.
32. Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks sense; he who does it destroys his own soul.
33. A wound and disgrace will befall him, and his reproach will not be blotted out.
34. For jealousy is a man's wrath, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35. He will not accept any ransom, nor will he yield though you offer many bribes.

## Nearby chapters

[Proverbs 5](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/5.md)
[Proverbs 7](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/7.md)

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